The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 62
John timidly went around when the dragon took his claw away; and sure enough, the dragon's wing was hanging loose, and several of the plates near the joint certainly wanted riveting.
Who acts: John, dragon, wing, several · What happens: go around, take away, hang, want, rivet · To what, where: claw
This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, dragon, wing, several), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | timidly | timidly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 took | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 claw | nmod:poss |
| 10 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 14 sure | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hanging | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dragon | det |
| 18 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wing | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 dragon | case |
| 20 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hanging | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hanging | aux |
| 22 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 23 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 22 hanging | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wanted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wanted | cc |
| 26 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wanted | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 plates | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 plates | det |
| 29 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 several | obl |
| 30 | near | near | ADP | _ | 32 joint | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 joint | det |
| 32 | joint | joint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 plates | nmod |
| 33 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 34 wanted | advmod |
| 34 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 35 | riveting | rivet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 wanted | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go around | past | John | around, timidly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take away | past | the dragon | Dragon's claw | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme | |||
| 3 | hang | past · progressive | the dragon's wing | loose property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | want | past | several | certainly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rivet not said to happen | gerund | several not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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